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Thanks, Joel, but I've read GA landlord- tenant law back and forth about 35 times  and have spent numerous hours on Landlordology, NOLO, ezlandlord forums, etc. AND  Georgia case law so I would know my rights. It supports every one of my claims because I have proper documentation, and 45 pages of notes on these people in addition to registered letters and emails. Clearly the emotional  involvement in my former family home is causing a problem and I don't deny it, but these people are taking advantage me. At this point I don't care if a Marshall comes to kick them out or not, they just need to know I have legal rights and they have to abide by the lease  as much as I do. Hence the reason I was simply asking for the name of an eviction attorney in the first place. Perhaps if you read the post again you would understand. Ironically, you were one of the people I thought about contacting privately to gain insight from because you have been on this forum for many years but I'm supposing you must think I'm a dimwit. It took me two days to get up the nerve to post on here and my fears were confirmed. 

I apparently don't understand, despite being educated at the post-graduate degree level,  how to ask a question via post and get a supportive, helpful answer to a landlord problem. Where do I ask 

I's dotted, not eyes. I have a Master's degree in Education so I don't need all of the ged's making fun of me. 

I have tried my best to delete this post. It's only my second post ever and I thought I was doing everyone a favor by not starting a new thread and never getting a reply. I wasn't trying to hijack anybody. I was on here trying to figure out how to get someone out of a SFR! I have no desire to fool with anyone's occupation I just know I have to have my eyes dotted and my tees crossed so I needed a good eviction attorney. I have no idea what you're talking about with the above. I have no desire to file ethical complaints, grievances, abuse systems, and I think you are quite arrogant to not read my entire post and instead choose the first sentence to judge me. I will definitely get off biggerpockets if this is what it's about. I thought I was going to get help from a friendly community but I've been basically reprimanded twice. Awesome. Thanks for the non-help.

I NEED A GOOD EVICTION ATTORNEY in Atlanta for an unconditional quit.  My tenant is a commercial real estate attorney in Florida so I can't make any mistakes  (brief backstory is at the bottom if interested )

 This isn't a Pay or Quit case, nor is it even about money, although  part of the bigger picture is that they think they can "decide" how much to pay in rent each month.  It started at the very beginning last August 2016 when I didn't require payment upon move-in, because they seemed like such nice people and I wasn't a professional landlord, and I didn't want to make a fuss, yada yada..., (yes a bad mistake) and subsequently they lived in the home for almost 2 weeks before paying the first month's rent.  These are not financially challenged tenants mind you, and when I received the next month's rent, it was short $180.  I sent them a notice that it was a breach of the lease, reducing rent is not their call and nothing further was to be taken out of rent (which they  proceeded to do the next month also).  I asked that they send the rest in order to pay rent in full, which they didn't. Apparently, they changed the locks because they falsely claimed the lock on the back door was broken which in and of itself wasn't a problem, but they never asked or notified me and  then expected me to pay for it.  I know there is no statute in Georgia but this was unlawful repair and deduct and I wasn't going to pay for it. This was the 2nd breach of lease so I sent them a registered letter/notice that went ignored.  I won't continue with the entire drama, but they've  refused to follow the covenants in the lease time after time, have violated it six different ways and, no surprise, have been verbally abusive. I have followed every landlord rule known to man, have bent over backwards to accommodate them and have simply given them too long of a leash. Short story long: the stress is too much, they have rendered a binding and legal document not worth the paper it's written on and I need them out!   Although they have violated numerous clauses, (including the final straw of moving in a nanny who is not on the lease nor did they ask for permission) I nicely offered to mutually part ways with them.  Happy Clause? Naturally, they said no thanks, even though they've threaten to move out multiple times. I sent them a second violation notice with a copy of the lease and the violations highlighted, and gave them six weeks to move out.  The attorney- husband sent me a letter basically laughing it off as frivolous and said they would be staying until lease termination in July.  This experience has been such a nightmare that I don't even want different tenants (ever!)  I am not a professional landlord nor did I want to be; the whole thing has honestly been worse than my divorce. I just need to put the house on the market ASAP. I am willing to lose several months of income simply to end this situation. Help!

Backstory:  In August of 2016, I was forced to quickly relocate (19 days) to California, and because of the short turnaround time I decided it was best to rent out my house for a year because I didn't have time to get it ready to sell. In 30327 (Buckhead) the rental market is quite competitive so I posted it on my neighborhood website and within 30 minutes had a woman who was "desperate" ( if anyone can possibly be desperate at $4,500/mo) to rent my home without coming to look at it. I thought that was odd and told her I really thought she should come see it but she insisted it would be perfect! A match made in heaven, right??... WRONG.

Hi All-

I am a newbie who has been thinking about REI for a very long time and I now have the ability and means to jump in. I am a single mom, I've built 2 houses (which I've lived in and also rented out), and I've done a major renovation on my current house. I am super excited to get going and be able to create a future doing something I love : HOUSES! I have just ordered the Book on Rental Property Investing and also The Book on Flipping, have been surfing BP for a couple of weeks now, and joined the Atlanta REIA. What next??

Thanks to everyone here for making this such an educational venue and a place to ask all the right questions!